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We are past the point where sigils are useful for a modern compiler or machine interpreter. A limited ability to avoid collisions with "reserved words" ... wou

• Zecc 3y ago
  > A limited ability to avoid collisions with "reserved words" ... would be more of a mis-feature than a feature. While I don't necessarily disagree with you, there's something I'd like to mention. C# allows using @ before a variable name which happens to be the same as a keyword to escape the name. I don't remember the specifics, but it has saved me once when I wanted to create a class shaped exactly like a JSON object I was loading from an external source and one of the fields was a reserved word. For example, this works fine: class MyClass { public int value; public string @default; public string @switch; } string json = "{\"value\": 8, \"default\": \"something\", \"switch\": \"on\"}"; MyClass o = JObject.Parse(json).ToObject<MyClass>(); Console.WriteLine("default={0}, switch={1}", o.@default, o.@switch);